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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4731  
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Yes revenge is sweet. Many years ago I worked on the building sites when I left school. One day the foreman came into the canteen and read us the riot act over something or other. We or some of those there probably deserved it as the foreman was generally easy going. Well the gauntlet was thrown down and revenge was in the air. It was noted that at morning tea break the foreman went into the toilet cubicle with a newspaper and read it in peace and quiet while doing his "business". The aforementioned cubicle was a metal affair bolted to a concrete base. The plan for revenge was put into action. The bolts on the cubucle were removed. Next morning when the foreman went in to settle down to his read and "business" the cubicle was lifted up via straps fitted to the roof by a JCB. I can still remember the look on his face when the cubicle was lifted and swinging gently in the air above his head. Yep, I learnt a lot on the building site. 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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6th Dec 2022 1:11am |
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| lohr500 Member Since: 14 Sep 2014 Location: Skipton Posts: 1325  
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Just remember spudfan, sh*t flows downhill!!!!
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6th Dec 2022 5:47pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4731
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As I was the smallest person on the site, just out of school, they used to put me down the manholes with a flashlight to check things. After the above "incident" I was duly sent down a manhole but the lid was closed and there I sat for the day. Fair enough at lunch time he did pass me down my sandwiches and flask! Yep they were fun times on the site, never a dull moment, especially when you were young and no mortgage or car loan! 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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6th Dec 2022 6:16pm |
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I was also an apprentice on a building site, in the mid-late eighties for me. I think in general life was a lot more laid back. There seemed to be enough time to get the job done but also to play hard - sometimes a little too hard | spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4731
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I was there in the late 1970's. One bloke was retiring so the lads organised a stripper for him. She arrived for our lunch break in the canteen...a glorified tin hut. This was all new ground to me and I was looking forward to it. I was given a front seat as I had the job of looking after her "day" clothes after she had changed into her "work" clothes. Now the canteen floor was on a slope, the legs on the table were uneven and the girl had on high heeled shoes...and it was draughty. She was doing her best to stay upright on the uneven table, on a sloping floor in high heels and I was taking it all in, when the health and safety crowd arrived in with the previously mentioned foreman. They had decided to give an unexpected and very rare visit to the site that day. Needless to say I never did get to see the lady perform. It was a major undertaking getting her down safely from the wobbly table, on a sloping floor wearing high heeled shoes, with the health and safety crowd looking on. As I was holding her clothes, well you can guess the rest! 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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6th Dec 2022 8:01pm |
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| Ianh Member Since: 17 Sep 2018 Location: Essex Posts: 2097
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I would have thought the Forman also asked you why were you wearing high heeled shoes on a building site Spudfan  |
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6th Dec 2022 8:40pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4731
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 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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6th Dec 2022 8:42pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3532 
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Sites have got a lot different, haven't they? I haven't done regular site work for years now. In my last office job, I would re-tell site stories when the day was going slowly or we were all bored, and I am sure my colleagues didn't believe half of what I told them. But it was all true. I think work-life is far too serious these days. |
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6th Dec 2022 8:53pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3532
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They would have to be steel toe-capped high heels these days  |
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6th Dec 2022 8:54pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4731
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Hard enough to walk in as they were.... 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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6th Dec 2022 8:59pm |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5221
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I do remember years ago when i was working for asda, I was putting out the stationary at the time, when one lad and his girlfriend, went past me. He said to her, ask him where the left-handed pens are. So she does, and i started laughing at her, She getting well wound up with me and the her boyfriend laughing. She got quite demanding, i had to demonstrate to her that, all pens were the same. She was not impressed at all for been stung with a classic. She gave him a dead arm for it.
Another good one, involving a kids water guns. At the back we had our Home and leisure warehouse, which was on a mezzanine floor. Every time it chucked it down, the roof leaked, so a bucket was kept up there. Anyway, one of the lads at the time had filled a small water gun. But had to hide it, due to the manager sniffing around. It was forgotten about due to him leaving the company. My mate though always used to fill super soakers with the bucket of water, to get you, every time you went up. He decided to fill a pump action one and hide it. One saturday, the company was emptying a lot of crap that had been stored in the corner, some stuff was just getting marked down to be sold off. Near to where the summer toys were located in the warehouse, where my mate had stashed this super soaker thing. The lass Holly had not long started working for us, and wasnt up to speed on my mates water gun tricks. She in the corner, marking down the crap that had been stored there, i was doing a pick in the other aisle. She had happened to come across the small hidden water gun, that had been stashed for years. My mate who was picking the summer toys at the time, had got his pump action water gun, ready to get me. When Holly bless her, sprayed him with the small water gun. Oh how she regretted it, as my mate, got the pump action super soaker, that he had stashed. He just opened fired at her. She went to scream and got her full shot straight in the mouth. You couldn't have wrote it if you tried. He then opened fired on me, i drove for cover behind a bunch for dinner sets, on the shelf. Poor Holly was half soaked, She said that water proper stinks!! We laughed about it, till the very day we all parted company. My mate used to say, he was the one that squirted in Holly's gob Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
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6th Dec 2022 9:15pm |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5221
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yeah the days where you could have a laugh at work are long gone now. My mate brought in fart spray/ liquid ASS in, that he had bought off his son. Me and my other mate were out on the shopfloor putting stock out, just before the shop was due to open, when my mate came down the aisle to see how our knees up the night was before and the morning. We were half way of telling him what had gone on, When he sprayed the liquid ass. Me and my mate i was working with at the time, jumped back. My mate explained, " i bought this off my son for a quid" Then the smell of it hit the three of us, like a rock. He was shocked on how strong it was! We just bailed down the aisle and out the back. The smell decided it would follow suite, and a customer and her family, decided to walk up the aisle into the smell. We came back out, and stud around the cage, trying not to laugh, because the liquid ass, had stunk up the full aisle by this point, and was getting worse as it travelled towards us. The customer was getting a bit high rated due to the smell, and sussed out we were behind her at the time. The three of us by this point were fighting back the laughter, She turns around to the three of us, and says " i can smell  !"  Well we just blew up with laughter, and vanished off the floor, and laughed uncontrollably for 20 mins. After that he was spraying it about the rest of the day. I dont know how we never got busted for that one, is beyond me to this very day. But i do remember the management, getting complaints of a bad smell knocking about some aisles. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
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6th Dec 2022 9:29pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3532
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One of my Forman's wives owned a joke shop.
One of the controls engineers found that if he got the paper reel caps, wrap them around a penny washer and seal with a bit of insulation tape, if you chuck it, when it hits a hard surface, the edge of the washer will set off one of the caps and then a chain reaction and they all go off. It worked best within confined spaces, small rooms, electricians working in air handling units. Made you ears ring a bit. I still have a nervous twitch 
On top of this, his wife was making a killing selling the caps and he was ‘dealing’ in the contraband 
The other favourite was the welders would make an acetylene bomb. A nice piece of steel pipe work, an oxyacetylene torch and some hemp thread. The pipe would be laid horizontally on pipe stands, a small piece of hemp thread would teased out into a fuse and regulated amount of acetylene gas would be added to the pipe. The fuse was lit, the fitter would retire to a safe distance and wait for the bang. Don’t try that at home. Too much gas, or too shorter fuse could be disastrous
I’m sure you would lose your job for any of that these days |
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6th Dec 2022 9:58pm |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5221
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Ah another good one, We were having a english breakfast today at pub in town, and we were talking about one of the lads who we used to work with. Anyway it sparked off a conversation about "work knifes")
We used to use small craft knifes, to open boxes due to work safety knifes not been much cop at all, Anyway my mate, again used to Kebab all sort's of stuff out the back. Like kids foot balls, just to take his temper out on the place. ( We all used do sort of thing ) Anyway we were on the floor at the time putting some XMAS stock out, and he had the blade a fair way out. A customer who happened to be wearing a black puff coat, ( ones that have the white wool or cotton in) She happened to lightly brush past him, as she stepped back, and she sliced her coat on his craft knife, She never noticed at all, and walked off. My mate was like the manager had her back to us at the time too, i said what you laughing at? He said "you see that woman there?" i said "aye," he said " she has just sliced her coat on my knife there, and a piece of the insulations hanging out " Oh god knows what would have happened if she had clocked it at the time With the manager been on the scene at the time too, Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
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14th Dec 2022 11:26pm |
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